Ohio regulator tied to group fighting renewables

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio utility regulator who opposed a planned American Electric Power Co. solar farm and used his Twitter page to question global warming has ties to a group behind model legislation that would repeal states' renewable energy requirements.

He was a keynote speaker at the American Legislative Exchange Council's April 2011 spring task force meeting. The event was held the month after Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) appointed the former lawmaker to the PUCO.